Build Your Weight Loss Muscle
Have you ever felt so strong in your healthy habits and lifestyle that you don’t crave or even think about eating off track or neglecting your exercise? If so, you’ve been working your weight loss muscle. The stronger your weight loss muscle is, the more control you feel in your life regarding food choices and combatting head hunger. If you greet each day with apprehension as to how your day will be with your food choices, then you need to work that weight loss muscle.
When you start weight training and lifting weights, you have to start off with lower reps, fewer number of sets and generally a light amount of weight. As you develop consistency in your workout routine, before you know it you have increased your reps and sets and are lifting much heavier weights. You can barely remember the days of barely able to lift very much weight and certainly not for very long. Through your persistence and regular weight training, you’ve built muscles that reflect your efforts. You feel strong, confident and proud of the tone in your body.
So, how do you build your weight loss muscle? As you make more consistent healthy food choices, you build that muscle. You create a momentum of a string of food choices that you want to continue. You don’t want to interrupt the cycle of making an unhealthy food choice. It isn’t worth it to you. Your weight loss muscle is built and made stronger and stronger each time you make a healthy food choice. Also, when you overcome the temptation of a unhealthy choice screaming your name, that also is a huge boost to increase your weight loss muscle. With each choice, just as with each weight training workout, you are building your weight loss muscle to be incredibly strong. A strong weight loss muscle propels you to make healthy choices, lost weight and reach your goal.
If you are off track trying to find your way back, correlate it to starting a weight training program. You are starting a back on track program. You build slowly but surely and before you know it you are firmly back on track and moving full speed ahead to your weight loss goals.
If you are struggling with good choices and not-so-great choices, think of your weight loss muscle. Build it to be strong with each and every choice you make. By persistence and consistency, your internal weight loss muscle will be stronger than Popeye’s!
The next time you are face to face with a bag of cookies or chips, think of yourself arm wrestling that food choice. With a strong weight loss muscle, there is no doubt you will win!
Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, CLC
Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery Coach
Certified Back On Track Facilitator, Bariatric University Bariatric Coach/Instructor
